Wont let me restore with different backup

i got an iphone 3gs a couple weeks ago and i just dropped in in my pool so my dad gave me his old iphone 3. when i swithed the sim cards however all of my contacts arre gone so i plugged it into itunes and it asked me if i wanted to restore it with the backup from my other phone and when i clicked yes it said i had to update it so i did but now i cant figure out how to restore it with the other backup!
i tried right clicking the device and using restore from backup but only the iphone 3 backup is comming up not the iphone 3gs.
can anyone help! please i just want to get my contacts back

You cannot restore a backup of a newer version to an older version of iOS. The backup should be your second line of defense for contacts; you should be syncing your contacts with a desktop aoo also. If yopu ahve been you can just sync with that app. If you have not you are out of luck.

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